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The Philosophy of Natural 
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Natural Science 

RICHMOND L. BISHOP 




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Life is the sequence of infinite love, 
It radiates back from the souls above, 
The story is told undreamed by man, 
Of Deity's spirit the highest command. 

Are you living the life of God and man! 
The psychic laws are clasping their hands, 
They are blending all life in harmonial strain, 
In which all shall waken to live again. 

Let thought be so pure untarnished and true 
That the deific centers unfold in you. 
Thus radiate life and love to man, 
And live divinely by Deity's plan. 

Life is stupendous in value to youth 
Its purpose unveiled will stand for truth ; 
It is just what you make it, if false or true, 
Awaken to life's value its teaching to you. 



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BY 

RICHMOND L. BISHOP 



I. 

When we become students of Nature we have opened the 
door of divine law and must first blend our lives with the 
smaller things of the universe. The hills, the vales, the 
streams, the trees, the birds and flowers are all varied expres- 
sions from one source of life, all harmonizing in Nature's 
law. 

The great unrest of the ocean, the seasons as they come 
and go, the order of the solar systems are manifestations of 
an infinite source, the symbols of progression. To blend life 
with these physical things of Nature is the first step in the 
attainment of harmony. The divine law of blending life 



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with all things in Nature is to love all things in Nature, for 
love is the life of God and the life of all that he has created. 

When life has become harmonized with the silent lan- 
guage of Deity's expressions, then is the foundation for truth 
builded. The natural avenues of attraction and expansion 
can be used by the physical body, when the laws governing 
expression have been complied with and become a forceful 
influence in life, which in turn is influenced by the individual 
in the blending of Nature and Deity. The ladder of 
progression is climbed round by round. 

The teachings of former ages made man superstitious, 
selfish, and antagonistic to all natural law, throwing his life 
upon the surface of events and making him a creature of 
circumstance. Man needs to be led by a natural science 
into Nature's divine principles so that the light of truth shall 
shine into his understanding and lead him out from the dark- 
ness of false doctrines which are but the result of ignorance 
and slavery. 

The problems of life are the subjects of all scientific 
research. In the physical kingdoms the visible manifesta- 
tions of nature have been successively traced and disclosed 
— yet through these orders and systems come always the 
question of "why," and "whither?" The man of science 
makes no answer, while the philosopher makes an attempt to 
reason either from external phenomena or interior conscious- 
ness — and in some way reconcile the mechanical theory with 
the more spiritual conception of formation and human experi- 
ence and its destiny. The theological systems long ago 



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failed of their purpose to explain the apparent perfection of 
heaven and the inequalities of earth, or to reconcile what 
appeared to the primitive nations as antagonistic powers. 

The perception of the eternal verities, the unvarying prin- 
ciples of harmony, the blending and interpenetration of spirit 
and matter in nature, the law of change, the phenomena of 
eternal progress through all forms, the perfect adaptation of 
all things to each other, of the one Power which lives in 
every atom and ceaselessly works toward the harmonious 
whole, — the perception of these universal laws have not been 
evident to either the external scientist, academic philosopher 
or theologian. The harmonial philosophy of nature's laws 
have not been fully recognized. 

The revelations of divinity as it operates through nature 
makes a twofold factor in the universe. 

The purpose of the School of Natural Science is to har- 
monize man with himself, with nature, and thus to lead him 
to the beholding of God. 

Blessed are the poor in heart for they shall see God ! 

When you have come in harmony with yourself, and har- 
monized yourself with God in Nature you have adjusted all 
your faculties, the physical, mental and spiritual, and har- 
mony will present itself as the gateway to Heaven. Then 
you have become in tune with the Infinite and in one-ness 
with the Father. You then can see God in all his manifes- 
tations in just the degree as you advance in the harmonial 
realization of Natural Science. 

The sunshine, the clouds, the atmosphere, the tempera- 



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tures are all playing an important part in every life, symbol- 
ically, mentally, spiritually, physically. On cloudy days a 
physical depression is usual. The atmosphere is dense, the 
individual vibration is lowered, the energy is lessened, and 
the brain which is the recorder of consciousness responds 
sympathetically to the bodily lassitude. The darkened skies 
are reflected in your own sensations, and life drops lower 
under these conditions. 

Spiritually you lose sight of the brightness which cannot 
be dimmed, and have yielded to the external shadow of a 
veiled landscape. In bright days the sunshine of life encom- 
passes you, and you answer back with your own bright looks. 
Your vibrations are quickened, your energy increased, your 
brain responds to the glory of light and the whole being is 
uplifted into brightness and harmony. The beautiful objects 
in nature are seen in their freshness, and Nature itself is 
shining through you, and you yourself radiate more life. 

While clouds and sunshine follow each other as surely as 
day and night, it does not equally follow that the individual 
who is a higher organism than the physical universe should 
be subject to these temporary changes, but should so harmo- 
nize his life with the enduring principles of spirit that he 
should ever be conscious of the divine light that is ever 
shining, and of his own power that cannot be dulled by 
dark days or unhappy events. 

Most surely health will result when Nature is understood 
in all her moods. The stepping stones to the larger realiza- 
tions of better manhood and womanhood are the little things 



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on every hand. When the awakening comes then the indi- 
vidual will begin his journey in life with more freedom, for 
he then emerges from the superficial boundaries into the 
broad and open avenues of Nature, where the revelations are 
to his soul and where Deity makes clear the salvation of man 
from the restrictions and the conditions which have been 
made through creedal laws and ignorance and which fetter 
the spirit and make weak the body. 

Scientists, sages, seers, philosophers, artists and poets are 
the ones to behold God's wisdom and truth. These gifted 
men and women are also revelations to the earth world, and 
are the mighty factors of the ages for the enlightenment of the 
world. The seers have told us to shut our eyes to the 
external appearances and see with the inner vision, thus be- 
holding the glory of the spiritual revelation. There have 
the seeds of God's wisdom been sown from time to time, 
through all ages for us to gather fruit in its season. All 
through the past has the music of Deity sounded for his 
children, and we now listen to its harmonies. We are to 
take the truths from here and there and bind them into one 
grand whole. We have been taught not to worship the 
stock of the rose but to appreciate its meaning in life as its 
face unfolds to you with the tenderness of love, the perfume 
of purity, with its delicacy of coloring from the master artist 
of all artists, Deity in Nature. You may have looked upon 
these various things in nature for years and have viewed only 
Nature's surface, living only in the stocks, weeds, and frame- 
work of life. Natural Science will bring you in touch with 



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the real life within, — that which appears to be is but mate- 
rial substance. When you are led into the temple of your own 
being, you will find that the real man or the real woman 
dwells within the outer form. While you cherish the body 
as a good house and well adapted for this existence it is the 
inner self that is to be cultivated; the life that never dies is 
the chief consideration. 

Pause for a moment and think! Look on these various 
expressions and truths. Has your inner sight been awakened ? 
Can you see the spiritual expression in all things? From the 
lowest atom to man is one continuous life element, one round 
of progression through the law of evolution. It is the essence 
of life we are gathering, that which lives and grows through 
all eternity. Power comes only through knowledge and 
wisdom. As we grow in closer relationship with life, power 
is added to us, and we reap our own. The gateway of 
eternity is the gateway of life. 

The materialistic life robs you of heaven while here upon 
earth. It also makes impossible to you the evidence of 
immortality that comes through the experience of seeing and 
living the life of the soul which is the spiritual expression in 
all that is universal. 

Why fear, why be lonely, why look with cowardice upon 
that which is not visible to the outer senses? Why dread 
the unknown to you, as a leap in the dark ! 

Fear is but ignorance, fear is but a mistaken mode of 
expression, both the result of an unenlightenment of the great 
harmonial law which opens its portals to all who seek for 



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truth. It is a wrong to yourself, or a sin, when you misuse 
any law of life. You may think your brother man will not 
discover your mistake or your intent, you may deceive your 
associates, but you never deceive the deity within yourself, 
for this is ever guarding the inner life and entering its protest 
against all thoughts and deeds that retard the true growth of 
that which is immortal. You may not understand why you 
are unhappy, even though you chose to do the act, you may 
not realize why unrest and fear breaks your nervous strength 
and you may rebel at the penalty you pay — but it is only the 
effect that justly follows a cause, and in the discord that 
results from your own inharmony with the true laws that 
govern your life. 

This life is too full of larger opportunities for you to be 
content with the lesser, and the sooner you will realize that 
divine content which should be your possession today as in a 
thousand years from today. Learn of Deity! The love 
of Deity is boundless — why not give love to Deity? It is 
your safeguard and guide in every walk in life, and will lead 
you into the realization of Nature's divinest principles. 

When you have stood uncertain at the cross roads, through 
lack of knowledge as to just the true direction have you not 
sensed this higher presence as it has tried to persuade you into 
the wiser choice, this loving voice of Deity as it would be- 
come your own controlling power? 

If you chose the smaller, earthly things, if you desired the 
seemingly attractive though less enduring, if through igno- 
rance of what is infinite in this life you submitted to the 



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weaker part of your nature, you have delayed your own 
growth and lessened your own development. 

You will remain blind until you awaken to God's mean- 
ing in this earthly expression, and find that you cannot begin 
at the fountain head and then learn backwards. 

A parent would not place a child in a college or univer- 
sity to learn the primary lessons — nor will the great universi- 
ties of deific principles open to the limited understanding of 
the stubborn, selfish, and wilful judgments of manhood and 
womanhood. 

It is the smaller things that lead to the ever widening 
avenues of thought, and the harmonial philosophy of Natural 
Science will unfold wisdom, even as from the alphabet lan- 
guage is constructed. 

Thus will the perfume of God's life be wafted from all 
the natural expressions and from the smaller things his love 
will flow continuously to the heights of your life. 

Thus you will become harmonized in yourself with all of 
God's manifestations as he first presents himself in the smallest 
of primary lessons. The higher growth will proceed by the 
law of evolution, until you will gain the power of apprecia- 
tion and see Deity and his ways in your knowledge of 
Nature. 

You will become a soul center and draw all things to 
yourself in just the degree as you have advanced. The rays 
of your own soul will permeate your physical body for 
health, strength, and happiness. Deity becomes the balanc- 
ing power. The key to heaven is placed in your hands. 



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You now are related to the higher unfoldment, and by this 
law of attraction will find your friends in the same walk of 
life. You can attract not only health and friends, but a 
business prosperity that will be a source of satisfaction be- 
cause your life makes unselfish demands from a harmonious 
and spiritual elevation that desires truth and justice for all 
mankind. 

As a child of God, recognizing and living in the atmos- 
phere of everlasting principle the former mysteries have 
passed away. 

The dawn of the eternal life has shone upon you, the 
narrow pathways are left behind in their darkness, the old 
dogmas are as dust to you, and you have emerged into God's 
eternal sunshine. 

Your sympathies are enlarged and comprise the brother- 
hood of man, and the sisterhood of woman in this father- 
hood of God, and you reach out to those living on the higher 
plane while you hold out the helping hand to the less for- 
tunate who will stay in the lower pathway. Your soul is 
cleansed of malice and flows to the ignorant in a helpful 
loving justice, and is as a beacon light to the souls that are 
farther down the ladder of life. You have now your own 
power through life's experience. The armor of your own 
protection is about you. Deity has provided that in Nature. 

This is in contrast to fear, — fear is the lash that has been 
used by those who assumed authority in religion, and who 
sought control of mankind. It has been held over the world 
by many churches, cults, and scientists, and is but a gauzy 



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excuse, a compelling power over the ignorant, a false explana- 
tion that has concealed ignorance of Deity's laws and the 
meaning of life. 

From plane to plane, throughout earthly life, and all 
eternity, both in earth and spirit life stands Deity with his 
protecting laws between you and the ignorant souls. All his 
laws are perfect. Do not remain in ignorance longer. Sal- 
vation comes through education and through this harmonial 
philosophy of Nature you can repel all you may, but you 
will yet find yourself as one soul center and some day will be 
obliged to comply with Nature's laws, the laws of God 
which dwell in all things and are unceasing in their processes. 

You have then become a universal being, recognizing all 
of God's laws and privileges. You have no more criticism 
upon life, you have been touched by the love of Deity and 
have felt the influx of your own divine higher being, and are 
moving on to higher expressions in life. 

Progression has no stopping place. Its advance is eternal. 
It opens our eyes to the higher truths, and unfolds the infinite 
manifestations. It has caused the scientists of this age to 
ask the question, "What is life?" and from their material 
investigations no decisive answer has come. 

Nature's principles teach us that Life is the sequence of 
divine love, the love that moves and animates all elements, 
and that is the mighty power of the soul. It is the magnet 
in the expression of life, the vitality of the soul that man can 
develop to unlimited possibilities after he has once awakened 
to the use and purpose of its motive power. Deity ever 



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guides us by his impersonal principles into the expression of 
his own likeness. In my father's house are many mansions 
— and when you are living in harmony with the father, you 
have already entered one of these mansions. 

Life ever leads into the broader pathways of universal 
understanding. Thus it will bear us onward and upward 
through all eternity, becoming a fuller realization of the law 
of evolution. Through these avenues of progression a child 
and student of nature is taught the meaning of life. This is 
Nature's method of instruction through experience. Be 
assured that Natural Science will reveal these living princi- 
ples and awaken you to the definition of Nature's uses, and 
the heritage of the immortal spirit. 

It is a truth that in order to attract all things that are best 
in life you must make life a thing of beauty and find the 
earthly life a reflection of heavenly benefits. Every act of 
life must be based on the foundation of truth and justice, and 
if you stand firmly on the foundation of truth you will be 
just, as an unfailing result. 

An application of these principles would overturn the pres- 
ent conditions of life, but it will come to the highest and the 
lowest through time and the immutable law of progression. 
Truth has been subverted and misused for selfish purposes 
throughout all the ages, yet through its ever living, ever 
loving light man is beginning to see more clearly and recog- 
nize it as a divine revelation, a guide to all mankind. It is 
as his dearest friend advising him always to walk in the high 
places of nature, telling him he must first be true to himself, 



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admonishing him that only by truth can error be outlived, 
encouraging him to the knowledge that the supreme power 
of manhood can rise to the heights only through steadfastness 
to truth, and ever accompanied by this eternal principle will 
he advance with firm step to the gateway of the garden of 
life, where his soul will more joyfully arise within him in 
fuller appreciation and expand in tender love of all existence. 

Life is but a garden of good things prepared by Deity, 
through which he has echoed and re-echoed all that is beauti- 
ful for every life. 

When the curtain of materialism has fallen from you then 
will you behold this wonderful expanse in all its beauty, the 
universal garden in which you dwell. Your whole organism 
will thrill with love of your own higher self, which you have 
now through Nature's unvarying laws. You have now your 
own soul center and have saved yourself from the dark ages 
of ignorance. You no longer have to struggle with inhar- 
mony and injustice, for you have been lifted by the great 
arm of the merciful principles of God's love from the lower 
walks of darkness and misunderstanding into the light of self, 
which is self salvation. 

Heaven is approaching, earth is receding, and though you 
still are in the earthly life the lower environments have lost 
their influence and virtue, and you are sheltered safe by the 
brooding wings of peace and love. 

Harmony is yours. 



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II. 

To love the world and all its expressions in accordance to 
Nature's laws, is to love God. To transgress this law is to 
suffer, and to suffer means that the angel of mercy has 
awakened you, that you may retrace every step of transgres- 
sion and arrive back at the temple of Truth. 

To love the law that governs all manifestations in earth, is 
to love progression. This is your mission in the earthly 
experience, and this experience is to individualize you, to 
mold and form your life by the highest principles of spiritual 
knowledge. 

The Philosophy of Natural Science is the guiding teacher 
through which you learn these great natural laws, the laws 
that save man from dwarfed and enfeebling conditions which 
he grows into through ignorance of the higher principles. 
After you have achieved the mastery of self and grow into 



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the spiritual illumination that follows the harmonious govern- 
ment of the soul, the earth world will seem small while life 
will expand into illimitable possibilities. 

In this individualization you become more and more con- 
scious of the inner self and the true part you are playing in 
life. It is as if you are two persons dwelling in an inner and 
an outer world, and you will commune together, and reason 
consciously. This is the spirit-self training the physical self. 
In this way you advance in wisdom and power, blending 
your forces together. The spiritual and the material are 
speeding on to higher conditions in which individuals will be 
God-men and God-women, masters of the laws of life, 
teachers to inspire those who are struggling upward. 

The great white curtain of life will be drawn aside, and 
you will be permitted to know the so-called mysteries of the 
spiritual plane. Angels of this sphere will guide you, and 
you will be baptized in the fountain of God's love, wisdom, 
and truth. 

The upward trend of life is bliss and in the assuming of 
greater responsibilities, greater development will be added to 
you. Fear has then been outgrown, and its destructive 
qualities are of the past. You then have been cleansed of 
appetites and habits; wickedness and wrongdoing have no 
power over you, and you will have graduated from the lower 
environment into the higher knowledge of all that is universal. 
You have earned this growth, you then are strong, brave, and 
fearless, yet kind, unassuming and patient. All evil has lost 



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its hold, and dropped to the valley of ignorance. Thy 
eternal light will ever shine in thy pathway. 

Physical constitutional tendencies as well as general tem- 
peramental characteristics are transmitted from parents to 
children through many generations. These hereditary weak- 
nesses are the result of error in the lives of one's ancestors. 
These local weaknesses in the system will manifest themselves 
more and more as the years go on, unless these laws of 
Nature are studied and a systematic effort is made to over- 
come them. All violations of the physical laws are recorded 
in the individual constitution whether it is the result of in- 
herited tendencies, or of personal carelessness and ignorance. 
A weakened body is susceptible to disease, and much more 
readily yields to attacks of illness than a body that has firm- 
ness and organic strength. 

Yet, such are the wonderful curative agencies in nature, 
such magnetic and mechanical aids in the bodily functions, 
such wisdom in the arrangement and construction of the 
bones, nerves, muscles, tissue, such perfect adaptation and 
relationship to all the beautiful powers living principles in all 
nature, that recuperation is the constant order of life. 
Natural Science teaches you how to reconstruct and how to 
build up a strong body, how to keep well, and how to govern 
the hereditary laws for the benefit of the succeeding genera- 
tions and thus establish the blessing of health as a universal 
heritage. 

These conditions can be brought about only from an in- 



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tellectual point of view. We must deal with error in regard 
to health the same as we would with all other errors. 

All violation of the laws of nature that control the physi- 
cal body must be corrected, and the body must be adjusted 
to its own governing laws. Nature ever teaches you to be 
obedient children to its laws, and it awakens you to your 
own possibilities. 

It is only through ignorance that the Past has taught you 
to cast your physical and spiritual burdens upon others, and 
it is from these teachings, that a demand caused physicians 
of different schools, and theologians of different denomina- 
tions to satisfy the peculiar ideas regarding the physical and 
spiritual affairs of life. 

In wandering through these entanglements, which are all 
the result of misunderstanding, and effects of misinterpreting 
natural phenomena, a cloud was interposed between you and 
the true revelation of God as he manifests himself in his all- 
wise laws and unvarying principles. 

You must find your soul center, and listen to the teaching 
that comes through its gateway, and see the light of truth that 
dispels all clouds and errors. Thus you will listen, and 
learn, and absorb the intention of life, and come into a fuller 
appreciation of the great meaning of these beneficent laws 
that pervade every form in Nature. Here is everything that 
is needed to make life a heaven on earth, — health, wisdom, 
happiness, harmony, — every conceivable bounty for the bene- 
fit of mankind. 



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There has never been any need to crucify saviours, or to 
persecute God. 

Draw nearer to the great magnetic source of God's love, 
stand in the pool of his living waters, pass down into the 
mighty streams that are ever flowing for the cleansing of 
humanity's impurities, and emerge into the boundless expres- 
sions of his power, strengthened by this contact with living 
elements, and in tune with the harmony of the God-life as it 
has revealed itself throughout natural channels. 

Then will the struggle cease. Your eyes will be opened 
to all the wonderful gifts which are spread before you. 
From his bounty you can choose everything that harmonizes 
with you and with your harmony in Nature. 

You are walking in understanding of the universal laws, 
and are no longer at war with them or with self. Mistakes 
have been swept away by the seas of time. You see God's 
manifestations with clearer vision, and your love goes out to 
all his creatures, and are one in unity of purpose and love 
with your brother man and sister woman, and henceforth 
dwell lovingly in Nature. 

You can no longer be torn by injustice or be cast down 
by ignorance and superstition. This is no longer your her- 
itage, but you are now born into power which will be equal 
to all your experiences as life goes on. 



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III. 



Physical suffering is always unwelcome, while mental 
interruptions are very serious conditions, and should be dealt 
with in the spirit of the greatest kindness and consideration. 
To help our fellow man is a necessity of life, and to do that 
successfully we must make that which is truly scientific our 
method of treatment. This is not the method of Insane 
Asylums, and it is from these institutions that we would save 
the mentally unbalanced. We must first find the error that 
caused the weakness or condition of mind, and help correct 
that which the sufferer is unconscious of, and find the 
center of adjustment, so that mental poise may result, and 
physical health be regained. The physical and the spiritual 
connection must be completed, and the balance of power 
must be rightfully assumed. In many cases there is more 
need of spiritual assistance than there is of physical treat- 



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ment, and souls in darkness can be liberated from their 
bondage by the understanding that comes through the 
acquaintance of the divine principles that Nature presents to 
mankind. The welfare of all people is the object of this 
philosophy. 



God-life and love, an entire blending of all forms, from 
the lowest expression of life to the highest conception of 
spiritual attainment will be your realization after you have 
passed up from the valleys to the heights as you attend this 
school of Natural Instruction. You are learning more and 
more of the beautiful things in life, and seeing more and 
more of the wisdom that has arranged life as a series in 
progression; God and love are walking with you — and the 
former things have passed away. You have chosen the way 
of wisdom, and her ways are pleasantness and peace. Sad- 
ness and sorrow no longer sit in your dwelling — you have 
risen from the shadows and forever will live and progress in 
the light of truth. Love and light will flow from your life 
and in the discipline of the past all malice and unkindness 
have been outgrown. 

There are always higher planes to ascend, always new 
experiences, and new truths spread before the earnest student. 
Love and beauty have fresh revelations for the aspiring soul, 
and the life that is unhampered by misunderstanding and 



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error goes joyfully on drawing the essences of all existence 
into the upward journey. 

This is the life of purity, this is the life of love that never 
dies. From the highest sense of refinement, from the eleva- 
tion of the spiritual growth, the perfume of truth will be 
wafted to the lower souls in the earth life, and spirit truth 
will pierce these hearts as an arrow of love, for a higher 
awakening. The conviction of higher truth will enter their 
understanding, from this light of your own soul which shines 
for their illumination. All men can see you for what you 
are — and you respond to the cries from the depths, and 
unselfishly labor for the souls who grope toward the light. 

Through the teachings of Natural Science you are sending 
the influx of your own spirit, and your power is felt through- 
out the world. 

Through your life a new revelation is given to mankind. 



The White Plague is the most dreaded disease in 
America. For its cure all eminent physicians are recom- 
mending God's pure air and sunshine. Tubercular patients 
are made to live in the out-of-doors. This is in harmony 
with all that is taught by Natural Science, yet this science 
does not stop here, it not only teaches you of the healing 
qualities in sunshine and pure air, but it furthermore informs 
you that Deity is expressing himself in all things in nature, 



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and the more fully you harmonize yourself with nature the 
more you are exerting a rightful power of your own spirit for 
your greater strength, and through this natural blending of 
reciprocal forces you are drawing healing life from all the 
elements in nature. The spirit within the physical body is 
the controlling power, and the body it inhabits will naturally 
respond to the awakening call of the central life. Thus you 
can heal yourself as God intended you to do. 

Remember that Nature sets no boundaries nor limits. 
There is everything in life that is needed for any condition 
that arises, and the object of life is to progress and work out a 
more perfect condition, physical, mental and spiritual. In 
this way you grow strong in mind, body, and soul, and have 
no need to fear the invasion of disease, or be a slave to any 
weakening habit. In this way you teach your own individ- 
uality to be harmonious and in this way you will reign 
supreme over the less perfect expressions of life. 

Then why submit to disease and error? Why think that 
the malady pronounced incurable by physicians is in reality 
a condition incapable of yielding to the restorative methods 
in nature? You believe that you have contracted a fatal 
disease because it has been so considered by those you regard 
as authority upon such subjects, and this thought controls 
your organism. It becomes enthroned in the place of a true 
understanding of physical and spiritual conditions, and you 
yield to its weakening effect. Why do you so submit and 
make its progress possible? 

I will answer for you ! It is because of your early teach- 



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ings, which you have not yet outgrown. These have worked 
their way into your thinking processes, and your vital forces 
are enervated by their hopelessness. If the theology of a 
darkened understanding has also cast its blighting power over 
you, then the torment of a despairing belief that you are a 
poor miserable sinner, weak and helpless in the sight of God, 
is adding its weight to the burden you are already bearing, 
and your body and spirit are greatly enfeebled. 

The present age is fast outgrowing these superstitions. 
God has always spoken to you of his power within yourself, 
and encouraged you by his loving wisdom to grow in likeness 
unto himself. 

It is a serious thing to submit to disease and ignorance. 
Think deeply upon this. The psychological power of one 
mind over another is a recognized fact, and many instances 
are recorded of the ill effects of suggesting weakness. Sup- 
pose in meeting a friend, at various times through the day, 
you appear anxious and tell him he is looking ill, and urge 
him to go home and to go to bed. It will have its effect if 
he is susceptible to your suggestions, and he will gradually 
take on the look of illness, and very likely take to his bed if 
you continue this solicitude about his condition. This is 
because he accepts the error, and believes in bad health. 
The same power rightly used can result in his restoration. 

Natural Science intends to build you into manly men, and 
womanly women, into a strong, unlimited spiritual being, 
recognizing your rights and privileges through the power of 
God within you, and by a just recognition of these laws. 



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IV. 

It is natural for mankind to seek the truth, and to make 
every effort to understand the mysteries of the universe and 
to become master of the principles which are ever expressing 
themselves to the mind which is constructed to understand! 

And just as surely is Nature trying to reveal herself for 
the use, culture, and upbuilding of mankind. This is true 
in material science and just as true in the higher development, 
or the spiritual expressions. The same light is shining 
through every atom and every sphere. The spiritualized 
understanding perceives much that is invisible to the outer 
senses, and associates consciously with the interior life of the 
universe, and receives truth from the higher spheres. Nature 
is a united whole. It is only a lack of recognition of this 
fact, that has made the earth world seem but a detached part 
of something incomprehensible, and humanity as fragments 



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of some undefined plan, subject to the caprice of the elements 
or limited by the boundaries that reach no further than 
mortality. 

Life has undreamed of possibilities. This is but the 
threshold of immortal eternal development. The spheres of 
our future home are wonderful in their perfection, and ar£ 
constantly giving of their love and goodness to inspire the 
burdened or sorrowful lives in this expression, and help all 
humanity in its efforts to rise above the material restrictions 
and understand the purpose of existence and the unity and 
harmony that is in all nature. 

The beautiful arrangement of the earthly plane in its con- 
nection with the spiritual worlds was more clearly revealed 
to me when I was guided by one of the inhabitants of the 
higher plane and my own liberated mind or spirit accom- 
panied him to the seventh sphere of life. Something of that 
quality of loveliness and purity I place before you, that from 
my own experience you may better understand these truths 
and be inspired to more nobility and the higher development 
of your own spiritual powers while enjoying or enduring the 
experiences of this first sphere of life. 

These truths are becoming more and more evident to the 
whole world, and are leading men and women into a larger 
conception of every phase of their expression. It has given 
me the realization of my own calling in life and I desire to 
aid men and women in their earthly pilgrimage to the attain- 
ment of the truths that will lead them ever onward and up- 
ward into the development of body, soul and spirit. 



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The milestones of life are engraved by indelible thoughts. 
Upon these as beacon lights will be set the precious gleams 
of immortal truths. They will shine from the hill-tops for 
the guidance of aspiring souls, and mankind will pass out 
from the narrow and tortuous paths and forever leave the 
dark valleys of ignorance and ascend to the heights of true 
manhood and womanhood. 

The life in all Nature is the same, it is the life of Deity. 
It exists in different states of perfection according to its 
natural development. This universe of life is real to me. 
The power of the great Positive Mind of the unseen is the 
source of all life, and to appreciate all his works is refining 
to the soul of every individual. It is by these truths that you 
are attracted to spiritual realities and can more consciously 
commune with your unseen friends, and be brought into 
clearer realizations of the heavenly principles that govern not 
only that sphere, but that are the moving principles of the 
whole universe. 

The Great Positive Mind called God and all the pro- 
gressed souls in the spiritual planes are reflecting these 
thoughts to you, that your own life may be illuminated by 
truth and made radiant by the light that is celestial. 

This principle of loving service is exhibited in all of life. 
No life is lived independent of anothers. No world exists 
independent of another. Every individual is but a part of 
the great brotherhood, and every revolving globe is but a part 
of the great system of suns, each held in their place by the 



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law of attraction or gravitation, each an important part of a 
great universal whole, whose cause is Divine Wisdom. 

The laws of sidereal space are so perfect that no planet 
ever wanders from its own path, and how true should this be 
of man whose relationship to his own orbit is determined by 
the same power that governs the planetary movements. 

Chemical relationships are the result of unvarying laws in 
matter, the combinations and recombinations of motion and 
progression — while the attractions of the mind and the de- 
velopment of the affections should be guided just as unerr- 
ingly by this spiritual law of relationship and obedience to 
the same progressive law. These processes will exist 
throughout eternity. The life spirit is in every kingdom and 
man is the immortal result. 

We are born into these laws, and must live by them, 
whether they suit our peculiar ideas or not. We shall live 
more completely if we voluntarily journey on in harmonious 
accord with the moving principles of our existence. 

There are many phases of religious and creedal life, of 
cults, and of associations, each presenting what has seemed 
to their originators as a truthful explanation of life and 
destiny, but if it had been truth the world would have been 
instructed into ways of wisdom and peace long before this 
era — so the results reveal their errors, and if individuals are 
seeking a better understanding, they will not find it by remain- 
ing in the former places. It will be necessary to become 
acquainted with Nature's laws, not creedal nor civic, and to 
learn through the natural avenues of thought and revelation, 



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the truths that will endure throughout eternity. This is in 
accord with Nature's design, and it is the law of life. Do 
not stay in the superstitious teachings of unenlightened minds. 
Awaken from the slumbers of an uninspired brain — else you 
will become dwarfed and unthinking creatures. 

Natural Science is to assist the earth world to a higher 
realization of universal law, and illumine the understanding 
till mankind sees clearly the spirit of life and life of spirit as 
it exists in the smallest forms and trace its connection through 
all its developments until it blooms in immortal beauty in the 
highest sphere. This universal principle will teach you to be 
kind, unselfish, charitable, it will open your soul to the 
arrangement of nature, and you will walk in a fuller com- 
prehension of the universal goodness, and become not only a 
philosopher and a scientist, but a being in harmony with the 
governing powers of life. 

»J» »^ tji tj* »J» *J» *ji »J* 

The beauties and love powers of the seventh sphere are 
unexplainable to the mortal ear — but if you will listen with 
the soul faculties and open your inner self to the contempla- 
tion of sublime truths you will receive imperishable treasures 
into your life, and become aware that the heavenly is dis- 
tinguished by its spirit of universal service, and perfect love. 

The unseen guide asked me if there were anything in life 
I desired that this sphere did not contain — and when I began 
to think of the innumerable beauties by which divine wisdom 



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expressed itself, my soul was filled to overflowing with love 
of Deity. Here was everything to make life one grand 
symphony. Every one I met radiated happiness. They 
all loved each other. There was no discord. All was 
harmony. It was a blending of lives in God's perfect love. 
There was no malice nor wickedness. The imperfections of 
this earthly expression could not enter there. 

My guardian angel who conducted me here was an ancient 
spirit, a teacher from one of the high planes of life, and as 
we entered the seventh sphere two beautiful souls who stood 
by its portals smiled and greeted us, and said * 'enter in." 
They were clothed in white garments, and carried symbols 
of liberty in their hands. 

As we passed through the beautiful white ethereal mist that 
separated this sphere from all others, two brilliant lights 
appeared, one in front of my face, and one in front of my 
guide's. This light which seemed about three feet away 
shone through the seventh sphere, and lighted our way. 

When we were within this sphere I was conscious of a 
wonderful uplift of power, and as I drew near the celestial 
souls who lived upon this plane, I breathed in a life force of 
a most refined nature. It was a drinking in of life, of love, 
of purity — a perfume of loveliness and goodness — an atmos- 
phere that was pervaded by every holy influence. 

The spirits appeared to be clothed in garments of ethereal 
texture which reflected the beauty and purity of their sur- 
roundings. 

Everything was symbolic of its own spiritual ascension 



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and progression, so exquisitely adapted to every loving 
thought that you would long to be with them always. It 
would make you understand that life is a thing of beauty, 
and of love, a love that never dies, but that grows higher, 
stronger, purer, which is a purity of heart, soul, and purpose. 
It is the divine love of the angels that you and I will grow to 
be, some day in the far distant ages, as we ascend from 
sphere to sphere. Let us work together to hasten that day, 
and to bring the kingdom of that thought, or heaven, to earth. 

The plants and flowers of that sphere were very beautiful, 
some of which were like those of earth, but many were of a 
type I have never seen in this expression. Some of these 
flowers of the seventh sphere seemed to lift their heads and 
smile as they unfolded their faces of beauty and gave forth 
their breath of love and purity. Here the birds sang when 
invited to, and their songs were strains of wonderful music. 
No bird did I ever hear sing so beautifully. Their coloring 
was soft and delicate and harmonious. 

It was all one grand, united outpouring of life thoughts 
rising from the Infinite, and flowing up in the hearts and 
souls of everything that had its dwelling place in this illu- 
mined sphere. 

As I looked about, I discovered at a distance the structure 
of a beautiful temple which was situated in the rays of a 
glowing light. It was the center of a wonderful power — 
attracting from the great spiritual sun, God Almighty. 

My inmost self was drawn toward this illuminated edifice 
which seemed as a fountain of light, and I requested my 



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guide to go with me and visit this temple of life where the 
great Positive Mind, God, was attracting me. 

My guardian angel smiled and said, "My child, you can- 
not go there for if you did you could never return to earth." 

I answered him by saying that I did not want to return to 
the earth life. 

Again he smiled and said to me, "You must return, your 
work in earth is not done." 

I looked at him fair in the eyes and said, "How can you 
ask me to go back to earth after bringing me to the seventh 
sphere where all is peace and bliss?" 

He placed his hand upon my head and said, "My child, 
do you want another to carry your burdens and to suffer 
your experiences? Would that be just?" and then earthly 
selfishness fell from me, and I saw the wiser plan of life. 

He said to me, "Go back to earth, take up the cross that 
awaits you, and when you are passing through the dark vales 
of life you will never be alone for I will be near you to lead, 
guide and protect you, and lead you out from the entangle- 
ments of life into the broad fields of wisdom and truth. You 
shall be a leader of men, and when your work is done in the 
earthly life, we will welcome you here with outstretched 
arms." ' 

He then said, "Follow me!" and we passed back through 
the beautiful mist of life that separated that sphere from the 
earthly plane — and we returned to earth to fulfill this mission. 



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It is possible for the students of these immortal truths to 
progress and grow into such an unfoldment of their own 
divine attributes, that under god-like conditions they can 
leave the material conditions and in spirit go from the physi- 
cal body, and in company with a master or teacher from the 
spiritual spheres visit the scenes of the future home, and 
communicate with the loving souls who now dwell there. 

This is a privilege you can have if you earn it through 
your own efforts. It is like going from the primary classes 
and advancing on through the other grades until you enter 
the University. The truths of spirit will reveal to every 
earnest student of Nature the laws of life by which you can 
aspire to the heights of wisdom. 

There is but one life, there is but one God. The God of 
the universe is the God of every expression material and 
spiritual, and in his revelation of the immutable principles 
that dwell in him, and that through him dwell in you, the 
way is made clear by which you surely journey to God-like 
expressions, and some day will arrive to this fulness of power. 

In the higher classes of life there are many planes of exist- 
ence, yet only one life essence is expanding your brain cells 
and stirring your consciousness to larger realizations and 
when you come to the full knowledge of this truth you will 
see life with the all seeing eye, and know life with the knowl- 
edge of Deity. 

Nothing can be hidden from the sight of Deity. Life 
time is all eternity. There is no death. Why not gain this 
larger knowledge of life and familiarize yourself with the 



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principles of thought transmitted between the different planes 
of existence? These are facts that are ever proving them- 
selves true. 

There have been and always will be teachers in the earth 
life and in the sphere of spirit. 

Jesus was one of these spiritual teachers, and he meant 
that the world should go on with his work, and that men and 
women should grow in his likeness unto God. 

This is what Natural Science is teaching you, but through 
misunderstanding and a wrong interpretation of Jesus' words 
you have been casting your burdens upon him, and thus make 
him an atonement for the mistakes that each individual must 
bear as his own. 

Earthly souls have always stoned their prophets. They 
have never appreciated the spiritual teachers. The whole 
system of progression is composed of an endless chain of 
teachers from every sphere of life, and through them are the 
higher thoughts transmitted from one plane to the other. If 
this were not so, if communication were impossible how could 
the poor souls that are living in the lower expressions be in- 
spired and lifted up into the better way ? When they behold 
their wasted life they cry out from their lower depths for 
help, and their cries are heard by the master teachers of spirit 
life, and they respond to the appeals of the suffering, and by 
their knowledge of the laws of life, help these unfortunate 
souls to find their place in the progressive development, and 
lead the erring ones into the spirit of truth. 

It is a universal truth, that we have possible access to 



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every plane of life. This must be recognized by every science, 
thought, and cult, otherwise they have no foundation for their 
teaching. Truth is always logical, and truth must embrace 
the whole, not stay at partial revelations. If we are search- 
ing for truth we are opening our minds to the reception of 
universal principles, and cannot throw aside a single phase 
of truth to satisfy any preconceived idea, prejudice, or 
peculiar belief. 

We must learn of life, and become in harmony with its 
undeviating laws. From every point of view life is perfect, 
and we are intended by it to have health, happiness and 
prosperity, and to be blessed by the visible and invisible 
worlds, and to be guided into love and purity and from our 
inmost spirit exhale the perfume of these life principles. 

Instead of this, humanity has circumscribed fixed beliefs, 
and oppressed life, causing untold suffering, sorrow and 
despair. The human family throughout the ages have 
violated nearly every natural law of the universe. 

This has brought dissension into the life of individuals, 
and made progress a thing of slow growth. How long will 
people be content to stumble along in the dark, and not take 
advantage of their rightful path? How long will they be 
held in bondage to external authority and not heed the voice 
that speaks in their own living temple? 

These shackles should be broken and the house cleansed 
of its accumulation of debris. Every condition that restricts 
the freedom of reason should be set aside, and a quick escape 



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should be made from the false environments that men have 
built to hedge in the free born soul. 

The sunshine of progression is lighting the world, and in 
this you should walk, and no longer wander in the shadows 
of the past. You will then realize that you are a living spirit, 
not insensate clay to be molded by opinion, but that you are 
endowed by an authority that is life — and that life can never 
die. You will become more conscious of the universal prin- 
ciples, and that you have a right in life that no man can 
circumscribe. You will enter into Nature's laws and live 
intelligently by their revelations and justice. 

Ignorance will be a despised condition that you will strive 
to outgrow, for you cannot open your door to progression if 
you continue to dwell in the old mistakes and errors. This 
is an essential truth to impress on every mind, and when you 
have thoroughly learned this through the teachings of Natural 
Science, you will grow into harmonious relations with the 
higher expressions. 

There will be no more sickness, no more distress, no more 
wickedness, no more selfishness. You will grow in likeness 
to the perfect love and peace that is perfected in the seventh 
sphere. 



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V. 



From Nature's great observatory you will view all of her 
domain, and realize the wonderful resources contained in her 
boundless fields of life. 

She furnishes every divine element that is necessary to 
sustain every expression of life, and from these elements man- 
kind derives all that is nutritious and curative for body or 
mind. 

The four important elements are sunlight, pure air, pure 
water — and a clean mind. 

The life properties of these elements are a part of the life 
force which flows from the source of All Power. 

Chemical, physiological, or optical analysis does not make 
manifest the life principle that shines in light or that flows in 
water, or that vivifies atmosphere. It is adapted in every 
way to the constitution of man. 



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To receive these living elements ever healing essences it is 
most important that the mind be clean, clear and free. 
Cleanliness results in Godliness, and a clean mind will make 
for itself a clean body governed by clean principles. 

A clean mind is like the clean window of a dwelling house 
— from this you have an unobstructed view into the fields of 
nature, and your vision follows the sunlight as it penetrates 
with magnetic warmth and life everything upon the face of 
the earth. Through this clear window of your mind you 
reach into the sunlight and attract the life elements. You 
can spiritually store away within your own being the influx 
of this life force that streams in the sunlight, and in this way 
comply with Nature's loving provisions and radiate light and 
life to the inner self. 

Windows are put in your house that you may have light 
and air, through these the sunshine comes in, otherwise there 
would be darkness in your house. 

The sun may be beaming down upon your physical body, 
but if your minds are not well cleared of superstition, and 
well cleaned of ignorance you have not suitable windows for 
the sun to shine into and radiate your temple with its purify- 
ing rays, and spiritually illumine the place you dwell in. In 
this case you remain in the dark, just as surely as if the 
windows had not been put in the house you had built. 

It is as necessary to provide for the wants of the spiritual 
man within, as it is to provide for the external body. The 
spiritual revelations throughout nature tell you that there is a 
constant interblending of matter and spirit, and it is through 



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this that harmonious relations exist between the spiritual and 
the physical expressions. This is a natural law, the truth of 
which should be more fully recognized. 

When you become conscious that you are absorbing the 
life elements from the sun, for your own light, health, and 
strength you are receiving from without and within, and are 
recognizing the physical and the spiritual laws, and comply- 
ing with them for your own harmonization. 

You are unfolding yourself to limitless possibilities by 
becoming one with nature. It is through sunlight that you 
see the inexpressible beauties that are on every hand. It is 
a world of exquisite color, and beautiful forms. This is 
received into your soul by the medium of light, and inspires 
you with a greater appreciation of God's goodness. 

The invigorating effect of air is also most important. 
Your lungs are constantly calling for the oxygen contained 
in the atmosphere. These particles of life which are con- 
tained in air have strength and healing power. It is the 
breath of Deity, and these heavenly elements should be 
absorbed into the system by deep breathing. 

We should make every effort to give all of humanity the 
clean surroundings that are necessary for purity of this divine 
atmospheric ocean by which we are encompassed that living 
principle of oxygen may purify the air chambers of the phy- 
sical body, and distribute vital power to every organ of the 
physical body. 

This will result in a sense of spiritual uplift for the whole 
being is grateful for this purity of atmosphere into which the 



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life of Deity breathes his spiritual essence. It is important 
to recognize these life qualities in all that surrounds you, for 
without recognition much that is otherwise beneficial cannot 
be retained. 

Recognition is a wonderful factor by which we become 
more fully awakened to the celestial forces which are work- 
ing ceaselessly for our upbuilding. Let us breathe in the 
breath of Deity with thankful appreciation of the marvels 
that are contained in its life principles. 

Let us drink in the pure water that is the cleansing factor 
of physical accumulations. Water also contains this living 
power and is a refined form of chemical substances most 
essential to health and vitality. From deep within the earth 
it journeys underground, bubbles up through springs, unites 
with the air, falls again to earth, rushes over gorges, flows 
down the mountain sides, surges in the lakes, becomes tor- 
rential floods, or sings its peaceful way as it ripples in the 
little brooks. What a power it is, and how great are its 
uses. 

It is a high form of elemental life, and acts upon the body 
by renewing health and strength- — and by repelling disease. 
When you drink this pure draught do you recognize it as a 
blessing from Deity, an expression of God's love and mercy? 
These truths will make you new born into the spiritual un- 
derstanding, and baptize you into the waters of living truth. 
You will behold God in every form and manifestation of 
life, and see the earth as a bounteous garden in which his 
love dwells manifested in everything that shall benefit man- 



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kind, and that these blessings are here in this earth's expres- 
sion, and that this knowledge of the upward tendency and 
growth of every formation through the avenues of progression 
by the laws of evolution are all of God and a part of Him- 
self. 

Are you carrying this same principle of living into the 
selection of food, are you recognizing the good and appro- 
priate elements in varieties of vegetable kingdom as it flowers 
and fruits in countless varieties and forms, or are you com- 
mitting savagery, and taking life to support your physical 
body? 

It is a violation of Nature's law to take harmless life, and 
it is not refining to live upon the flesh of animals. It is only 
past ignorance that allows this, and custom is a difficult thing 
to outgrow. Every manifestation of life has a spiritual 
meaning, and the higher the animal form the more useful a 
part it plays in the assistance of mankind in his own life. 
You are interrupting the plans of Deity when you take the 
life and feed upon the flesh of the beasts of the field, and the 
fowls of the air, and the fishes of the deep. They have a 
significance of their own and are an important part of their 
age and environment, and are adapted to, a service in the 
purposes of Nature that is not yet fully recognized in its 
wonderful arrangement. 

To eat of their flesh is only a step in advance of the 
cannibalism that feeds upon human bodies. It is against 
Nature's laws to slay the innocent creatures that combine to 
make man's habitation a rest and beauty unto his needs, and 



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to use this flesh as food is not according to the requirements 
of nutrition. It builds disease and impairs the living tissue 
of every fibre of your body. Such gross food, so full of 
decomposition, causes indigestion and produces many of the 
so-called diseases of the stomach, kidneys, liver and intes- 
tines. It lessens peristaltic motion and burdens the blood 
with impurities. It destroys the finer texture of the mortal 
body and establishes a coarser nature and thus retards your 
advance toward higher understanding and unfoldments. 

If you wish to become refined and spiritual, you must 
adopt a refined diet. The prevailing fashions are surely not 
the result of either culture, or a pure love of the beautiful, 
or an appreciation of Nature's uses and intentions. So to 
be considered refined according to custom and formality is 
one thing, but to be cultured in the refined perceptions of 
Nature's laws and purposes is quite another thing. 

Deity through Nature intended you to live upon the prod- 
ucts that grow in the earth and upon the earth, and not to 
slay your helpmates. 

God gave you the soil to cultivate, and the knowledge by 
which this is accomplished. He has sowed the seed of 
wonderful kinds of food, and spread the earth most bounti- 
fully with beautiful and appropriate substances. 

The realization of this will make the world more civilized, 
and humanity will awaken to the life that is designed for 
mortals in the earthly pilgrimage. 

Do not retard this advance by pessimistic doubts, but 
come quickly into the avenues of Natural law, and be led 



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into the fields and orchards, there to select from these store- 
houses the good foods that mother earth has so opulently 
borne for your nourishment. 

Here are vegetables, fruits, nuts, cereals of all descrip- 
tions, and if you will make a study of their substances, and 
prepare them fresh for your table, you will be surprised to 
know how many beautiful dishes can be made for your en- 
joyment and assimilation — but instead of this you have killed 
your friends and eaten them! 

The food we eat contains the elements of life. It unites 
with the system and becomes the structure of every organ; it 
becomes a part of the brain, there to influence the thoughts 
and deeds of mankind. 

The necessity of refined food is clearly proved, for by 
refined food you build a refined body by which your men- 
tality is improved and through which you become more and 
more spiritualized in your perceptions and nature, showing 
more and more justice to every creature, and becoming more 
and more harmonious in all your relationships. 

Thus you will grow strong in body and unfold a character, 
which is in accord with God's higher principles and will live 
in the perfect life, blessed with Deity's luxuries, enjoying the 
fulness of health, awakened to the wonders of the universe, 
and sheltered secure by wisdom, no longer violating the 
essential laws of your existence. 



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Rest and quietude mean a perfect relaxation of the 
mental faculties, by which it is made possible for Nature to 
build and reconstruct the body which has been struggling in 
ignorance of its needs, and oft-times crucified by a succession 
of errors. 

A receptive condition is necessary in which there shall be 
a complete surrender to the law of physical inaction, that the 
spiritual self shall gather strength from all the life elements 
that flow from every source. Nature will thus increase your 
energy and in this harmonious manner you will attract from 
Nature's storehouse, and the spiritual, mental, and physical 
will receive all that is needed to restore health. In this silence 
of peace you are as a child rocked in the cradle of Deity, 
soothed, sustained, strengthened by his enfolding love and 
care. 

This is life. This is love. This expression of God will 
awaken even the unbelievers in this science to a higher realiza- 
tion of the truth of the universal principles, and inspire them 
to a higher calling in life. 

Many a person who has been down in the valley of illness 
near the change called death, when lifted out of this condi- 
tion and restored to health, has become entirely changed in 
thoughts and habits, and has seen life in its higher meaning, 
and through the clearer perception has entered upon the com- 
ing years with an entirely different point of view. 

Sometimes when the body has been so near dissolution, the 
spirit has made a partial escape into the realness of infinity, 
and visions of beauty and truth have opened the understand- 



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ing to the higher conditions of living. All this is refining and 
purifying and results in a very different method of living, 
when restored to health. 



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VI. 



The texture of Nature should be closely observed, since 
it varies in every product and every composition and is per- 
fectly adapted for the use in the great interchanging system 
of the universe. 

In the vegetable kingdom we find that the vegetables 
especially adapted for the feeding of animals, is of a coarser 
nature than that which is most nutritious for man. 

The texture of animals differ according to their scale of 
development, and we find this same difference in trees, and 
shrubs, and flowers. It is the same in the vibrations of 
sound, of odors, of colors, of atmosphere, everything work- 
ing according to a perfect law of progression. Nothing can 
be added to nature. The musician combines the sounds 
according to a mathematical scale, the mechanic studies the 
forms Nature has already used, the inventor interprets 



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Nature's wonderful expressions, while the artist but repro- 
duces the beauty that is spread for all beholders. He makes 
a likeness of some scene, in which Nature speaks to him 
according to his receptivity or inspiration, but compare the 
painting with the picture made by Deific principles as they 
show forth in form, line, color, and spontaneous arrangement. 
It is as a human achievement that only mirrors the divine, and 
however beautiful is the artist's effort, the texture cannot be 
compared with the texture that unfolds its degrees of perfec- 
tion in the object which has been reproduced. 

Nature will bear the closest scrutiny. The more care- 
fully you look at the blossom the more delicate is its loveli- 
ness, and the more wonderfully the flower expresses itself to 
you. So it is with the veining of the leaf, the fibre of the 
tree, the bloom of fruit, the slender grace of the waving 
grass, the color imprisoned in mineral formations, the con- 
centrated firmness and symmetry of the physical body with 
its infinities of textures and colors, all these reveal to you the 
master mind that is the causation, and that lives in all life. 

We do not have to put distance between us and Nature's 
attainments, as is necessary in viewing the artist's picture, but 
we will examine every form, trace its development, study its 
use, and at the end find it only more beautiful than it first 
seemed to our casual gaze, and our uninspired understanding. 

If our genius teaches us to try to reproduce Nature, we 
shall know it will be but an artificial result and that we can 
add nothing to her infinite beauty. We shall have but 
awakened more to the incomparable loveliness, and the in- 



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creasing wonders of our surroundings and of what our own 
constitution contains, and grow into a fuller expression of all 
our opportunities in this life. 

We find this same difference of texture in people. Some 
are refined, some are coarse. There are all kinds and all 
varieties of temperament and characteristics. Those of fine 
texture are usually sensitive to the finer expressions of life, 
yet positive to the harsher and coarser nature, and they have 
wonderful possibilities of advancement even as in nature the 
fine and the beautiful are the likeness of a high development 
and inspiration. 

The smaller, refined things of nature are sensitive. The 
great mind God is positive and gives of his divine wisdom 
and spirit to everything in every expression of life according 
to its capacity or receptivity. Man is a part of nature, 
therefore, he is endowed with the inmost qualities of the 
Universal Cause of Life. 

People whose organization unfolds sensitiveness and posi- 
tiveness to a high degree are kind, conscientious, consistent, 
and just. Their sensitive nature gives them a very keen 
perception of what is natural to their own powers and attrac- 
tions, and their positiveness affirms the superiority of Nature 
as a divine revelation, and of their own soul as the inspirer of 
harmonious action, and of their own reasoning principle as 
the guide to truth and justice. 

This results in refinement in nature, and the higher culture 
of the whole character, and of a fuller harmonization with 
Deity, and an enlightened consideration of mankind. 



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Those of coarser texture are more in harmony with the 
coarser materiality of life, and are attracted to objects, and 
thoughts, and pleasures and pursuits of a lower order in the 
scale of natural development. They do not respond to the 
spiritual essences for their organism is more related to external 
nature than to the interior, or spiritual life. Their vibration 
is low, the brain is slow to operate and does not respond to 
the spiritual forces as readily as to the inferior and outer 
influences. They are more imprisoned by an earthly body 
that blends with denser substances, and which is unaware of 
the great deific life about them. They believe in death. 
They see only the mortal expressions of birth and decay. 
This world represents the object of existence, and they have 
no knowledge of the spiritual man within that is born anew 
into the more refined spheres through the transition called 
death. 

In this spiritual darkness they enter the eternal home, and 
carry with them the effects of their ignorance and mate- 
rialism. As they become awakened to the higher life, and 
see the glories of the heavenly atmosphere, they look back 
with sorrow upon their wasted years in the earthly expression, 
and cry for light. The higher teachers respond to their 
pleadings and bring to the strangers in the spiritual spheres 
the light for which they ask, and the truth that shall unfold 
their souls into the true proportions that are the heritage of 
every child of the Universal Father. 

These higher teachers are the men and women who once 
lived upon some sphere in the planetary system, and who in 



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the spiritual planes have advanced during their long residence 
in the home of purity and wisdom, until they have become 
powerful in the likeness of God, ministering unto the unhappy 
individual who dwells in darkness, and they work unceasingly 
for the uplift of all humanity. 

This truth you call Natural Science has been impressed 
upon the understanding by the higher teachers that the human 
soul may more readily expand in the earthly progression, and 
more surely progress in the ways of harmony during his life 
upon the rudimental plane which is preparatory for the higher 
expression. In this way the life of God is made a reality, 
and mankind will become more individualized by spiritual 
characteristics. By this science you are taught to live — not 
to die — for life is eternal. This revelation of the natural 
and spiritual unity of all life shows the unmistakable develop- 
ment of every order of creation. It is the symphony of 
Nature — the music of Deity as he expresses his love for the 
human soul. Into this life it is possible to harmonize your 
own thoughts and affections until your own harmony inter- 
blends with the universal symphony of Nature and you are in 
tune with the infinite melody that sings its sweetness and its 
glory in every sphere. 

As a child this music entered your soul, and led your feet 
to quicker motions, or hushed your tired bodies by its tender 
lullaby. It sounded the onward march of time to your im- 
patient eagerness and poured its rapture into your unfolding 
affections. 

This mystery of music was in the rippling streams, you 



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heard it in the song of birds, you found it in the raindrop, and 
you saw it in the dancing sunbeams. Every flower spoke its 
sweetness, and looked into your face as gentle as is the gaze 
of love. 

Springtime was the wonderful first movement of this celes- 
tial symphony played by the budding life that expressed itself 
throughout every kingdom, and echoed in the heart of re- 
sponsive childhood. 

The symphony of Deity is expressing God's love in every 
form of life, and when you are enjoying Nature's every 
blessing you are in the universal harmony. It is the over- 
joy of love and heaven that thrills your very being. The 
deific symphony flows through your organism and lifts you 
into a clearer understanding of truth in nature, and truth in 
yourself. 

You listen to the waters of life as they rush down in 
mighty streams, you hear the roar of the ocean as its tide 
flows and ebbs, you note the voice of the^ air as it breathes 
through the waving palms, the song of birds comes to you, 
the melody of the human voice reaches your soul, and as a 
harp vibrates to touch you respond to the thrill of ecstasy, 
and are lifted to the highest consciousness of peace and love 
where the blending of souls in purity are the silent strains of 
this deific symphony. 



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VII. 

Man is a fountain of life's expression to flow forth every 
truth there is in the universe. He is a fountain of thought 
from which shall issue clear understanding by which life shall 
be cleansed and refreshed. When he is aware of this truth 
then will he seek the eternal springs that rise in the conscious- 
ness and that mirror the infinite sources of life. 

Into these life streams tome many vibratory currents, and 
through these invisible fluids are the finer essences — by which 
you form your life and the life of others. You can add to 
this silent force the mighty energy of your own right direc- 
tion, or you can decrease your supply and cloud its clearness. 
You can live in its progressive flowing or you can drift aim- 
lessly upon its bosom, and be at the mercy of storms and 
darkness, and the tumult of the waves. 

If you have ignorantly chosen the path of storm and 



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clouds, or have found yourself in distress, arise in your own 
self-consciousness and make your way into a clearer atmos- 
phere lest you not only wander here in darkness, but become 
a wanderer in the next expression of life, until there God's 
light and truth shall awaken you to the universal principles 
that you so disregarded in the earthly retrogression. 

This is the sphere in which to begin the molding process, 
this is the time to cease from all thoughts and ways that result 
in destructive processes. Build nobly now the foundation of 
the structure that shall last throughout eternity. 

This Philosophy of Natural Science has been written 
under the guiding influence of the angels, as a signal, a warn- 
ing, and a helpmeet to all souls whomsoever they are and 
wheresoever they may be, that they may awaken to the 
higher truths in earth life, that they may become self poised 
and take their own individual place in the universe, under- 
standing the vibratory force that is in every expression, and 
regard themselves as fountains which send forth countless 
streams of energy and of healing that shall reach every ill in 
the social disturbance, and give health and wisdom to those 
who are in bodily sickness and mental unrest. 

By the law of recompense or compensation this good 
returns to the individual and builds that life into physical and 
mental power, and unfolds limitless possibilities as to the 
mastery of self. It is one with the deific power, the all 
seeing eye that discerns wisdom and cannot be led into 
ignorance, nor be dominated by the mischievous minds of 
others. 



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The psychology of mind over mind is a manifest fact, not 
only in individual cases but in crowds and in masses. The 
power of oratory, the magic of music, the fury of the mob, 
all demonstrate the sympathetic response that is given by 
mind to whatever is the appeal that stimulates it to answering 
action. 

This concordant atmosphere of mind to mind operates 
upon the natural law of like attractions, or the positive ele- 
ment as master of the negative temperament, and can be used 
to inspire faith, heroism, and justice, or it can me misused to 
selfish and disasterous ends. 

This knowledge of psychological influence should be 
applied to the strengthening and maintaining of the individual 
sovereignty as supreme to unwise influence from without, and 
as his own power over self. The voluntary powers of the 
mind should be educated to strength and to a fortifying self 
confidence. The basis of this will power should be an 
intelligent understanding of Nature, an application of reason 
to all subjects, and an earnest desire to unfold all the better 
qualities of self that mankind may expand into unselfish, 
truthful, well balanced, harmonious individuals. 

There is no doubt but that many a man has made mistakes 
in business investments and in his business methods by the 
wrongful influence of a less honest mind, and that many a 
person has formed habits injurious to health through the 
harmful suggestions of fellow companions. The social world 
suffers from the wilful efforts of self seekers, while criminal 



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propensities are encouraged by this contagion of surrounding 
influence. 

We see this in various ways as the path of life is traverst, 
and man is in danger from these insidious foes, unless he is 
well guarded in his soul self. Telepathy has proved that 
the brain is open to receive thoughts from others. This is 
commonly called thought transference — or transmittance of 
thought. It manifests itself constantly, and has been for 
years, and is now, the object of scientific investigation. 
Thought travels anywhere upon this plane of life, and also 
upon the higher planes, according to the law of vibratory 
attraction, so it is essential for happiness and progression that 
each individual should be master of his soul self, and re- 
spond only to the thought waves that emanate from the intel- 
ligent and lofty minds in either sphere of life. 

You should see life from every point of view for ignorance 
is not innocence nor protection. And as you unfold the 
God-life from within, just so surely you unfold the greater 
wisdom that not only makes your own character, but gives 
you discerning power to judge of character in another. You 
will know this at a glance, because the inner self cannot be 
hidden. 

This is a silent language that expresses the real self. 
From out the eyes the soul looks; your affections proclaim 
themselves in your smile, every heart throb forms your feat- 
ures into their expression and your very spirit shines through 
or clouds your face, and speaks more truly than uttered 
words. The discerning see this, but the immature, the 



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ignorant, the weak, the unsuspecting are less protected, and 
more easily victimized. 

Each needs to be a master soul that these conditions may 
be controlled, and that the line of differentiation can be 
drawn between one's own thoughts and the thoughts of 
others, and so be held aloft from ignorance and mistakes. 

Through this ignorance and folly mankind has misused his 
natural opportunities and violated the laws that are for well 
being. This has brought suffering, wrong doing, and super- 
stition in the place of happiness, good, and wisdom, but man- 
kind is also progressive and is looking more deeply into the 
philosophy of life than ever before, and will find truth, and 
not only save himself but save the coming generations from 
the consequences of former errors. 

This consciousness of individual responsibility will inspire 
you to greater spirituality and you will feel yourself as a 
fountain of thought drawn from God's great reservoir of life, 
and in your own elevation you will draw all men unto you 
that they may drink of the waters of life and become re- 
freshed and strengthened. This fountain of thought that has 
its rise in Deific sources flows throughout the universe. It 
stimulates mankind to progression, and sustains him in his 
forward march. 

Natural Science teaches you to see this clearly, and leads 
you to the waters of life. Progression is endless. The 
development of the human soul is for eternity. The call to 
life is the clear bugle note of infinity that sounds to summons 
man to command himself. Natural Science is the teacher 



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in this great training school. It unveils the undiscovered 
secrets and gives man the possession of the laws of growth, 
and the realization that only through proper living can he 
enjoy the fulness of pleasure. 

When the ethereal wave of Deity is with you, and your 
consciousness is open to Deity's breath of love it will make 
every manifestation in nature a thing of beauty, a life expres- 
sion that is sweet as purity. 

You will thank God that you are living, and will rejoice 
that you are to live always. You will thank God for the 
halo of light that surrounds you, that its rays dispelled your 
darkness, and led you to victory. Your illumination shall 
shine for all men, and bring them to more perfect conditions. 
You will deal gently with your fellow men, and charitably 
excuse their ignorance. You will give thoughts of love in 
place of anger, and smile in return for the frown. You will 
reflect the inner life that characterized the Nazarene, and be 
known even as Jesus was, a friend of the unfortunate, a 
teacher of universal principles, an example of God-life, and 
a demonstration of God's power to everthrow sin and in- 
justice. In this way will men walk out from the shadows of 
life into the universal truth of God's love. In this larger life 
this fountain of truth and love will flow from every soul, and 
pure conditions will be realized in what is now a land of 
promise. 

Life will mirror only the brightest and the best that man- 
kind may see the truth that is expressed in God's universal 
love, and "peace on earth good will toward men" will be 



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the watchword as humanity rises to the higher life. All 
will be harmony and truth. It will be the era of the mother- 
hood of man and the sisterhood of woman. The Infinite 
Goodness is revealed in every expression. 

The ethereal breath of Deity will refine all substances, 
and unite mankind; it will lift the veil of darkness from the 
valleys of the earth, and the glory of celestial light will shine 
throughout the universe. 

Turmoil then will have ceased. Then all is peace, all is 
love. All are united in God's kingdom, in onement with 
God's higher expression in the higher life. 



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VIII. 

Natural Science, or the true comprehension of Nature, 
assures us beyond a doubt, that spirit is life and can never 
die. The earthly body endures but a few years at the most, 
and is always restricted by its own mortality. But its own 
divine guest within, is the real personage, the conscious pos- 
sessor of all the immortal treasures that illimitable time is to 
unfold. This consciousness ever looks to the source of its 
own existence, and is attracted more and more to the center 
of divine wisdom and power, and is inspired more and more 
to attain knowledge of its own endowments and harmonize 
the physical and spiritual qualities of its own constitution with 
the surrounding elements and structures of that which is the 
earthly heritage and the spiritual destiny. 

Truth can never be fully realized until the investigator 
looks beneath the crust of physical matter, beyond the out- 



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ward appearance into the very spirit of life. This is the only 
way by which the unseen cause is revealed. 

The result of this inquiring will teach the individual 
how to blend the spirit self that lives in the physical body 
and harmonize the two entities, and manifest this knowledge 
toward everything in the visible and invisible world. 

Science teaches us that this is a universe of perfect and 
unerring laws. Nature furthermore shows to us that man's 
possibilities are limitless, that his life is of infinite significance. 
He is qualified mentally to comprehend the elemental, and 
the powers that are constantly revealing themselves in phe- 
nomena, and make use of all the chemical and mechanical 
forces of the universe for the further improvement, correc- 
tion, and cultivation of the face of nature, and establish wise 
conditions for health and happiness. Mind has always 
proved itself a conqueror. Wonderful examples of individ- 
ual heroism, of devotion to duty, of forgetfulness of self, of 
mastery over tumultuous situations have always been exhibited 
in every age and generation. The most isolated life, the 
many unknown to fame have doubtless risen to heights of 
wonderful achievement in the humblest of circumstances, 
inspired to power by the indwelling, invisible spirit within. 

This reality of power, this divine image of the Father 
cannot be confined nor restricted. It has ever been seeking 
to solve the problems of every phase of existence, and enter 
into the spiritual kingdoms of light and life. 

It is the ignorance of the past that has degraded men. It 
is injustice that has enslaved them, it is the despotism of an 



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unenlightened religion that has blinded people to the truth, 
and offered only a supernatural explanation of nature that 
had no real knowledge of Deity or his children. 

These old doctrines gave man no knowledge of his per- 
sonality, or of his own intrinsic power. It taught humanity 
to rely upon some power outside themselves. If sin sick, to 
apply to a priest for absolution; if physically sick to take 
counsel of a physician who would prescribe some panacea 
to remove merely the effects of bodily transgression. 

When mankind will arise to truth and find the real proper- 
ties within himself and in nature around him, and live accord- 
ing to the wise instructions that are written upon the constitu- 
tion of every living thing, then will the physical and moral 
conditions be entirely transformed. 

These principles that nature is constantly proclaiming, 
when applied to individual life will give the mastery of self 
over bodily weakness, and will correct the errors that result 
from vicious and unprincipled behavior. 

Ignorance will be overcome. 

Unwise association will cease. 

The individual will save himself through his own knowl- 
edge and power through his own superior desire, and not in 
the different cures and sanitariums. 

No intemperate habit need master any person. Spirit 
is the reality within the body. This body has been organ- 
ized through the processes of countless years of time, and is 
composed of wonderful chemical combinations and spiritual 
energies. It is developed into the most perfect of physical 



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structures, and is adapted in every way to live and progress 
upon this progressing planet. It is the physical temple of 
the immortal spirit — and that spirit when summoned and 
directed will assume dominion, even though the physical 
man has long ignored its natural sovereignty. 

Heredity, environment, associations, education are all of 
formative influence. The rudimental lessons of this existence 
are a necessity. 

The imperfect must unfold toward perfection, and the 
unfavorable situations must be changed by the wisdom of 
enlightened minds and intelligent action. Ignorance has 
possibilities of wisdom — discord finally turns itself to har- 
mony. So with man. He must outgrow all the unfavor- 
able conditions and arrive at his own summit of triumphant 
living. 

The body and the earthly conditions must have their 
acknowledged beautiful meaning. The material substances 
are all being used toward the spiritual design. 

The spiritual self is ever rapping and rapping at the inner 
door of consciousness and asking its rightful recognition. 
These lives must be lived as one, blended into unison by the 
harmonious adjustment of soul and body. 

If you have been listening at the gateway of this immortal 
self and responded only to the mortal, it is time to rise into 
the fuller understanding of responsibility and recognition, and 
start out together on the road of destiny that leads to com- 
plete unfoldment. 

It may take time, it must take patience — and courage is a 



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necessity in many cases, but this work of adjustment must be 
accomplished if you attain physical health and spiritual 
power. 

When you rise into the desire for this higher life you will 
attract the pure and noble intelligences of both spheres for 
your help. 

The infinite Goodness expresses itself on every hand for 
your upbuilding and for your encouragement. 

Take your stand in your own soul, as a seeker after your 
own self possession. Become master of your own self. 
Elevate your ideals. Regulate your physical life, and 
emancipate your spirit from slavery to its external surround- 
ings. 

Live naturally with just regard for the physical and moral 
beauty of the universal order of life and you will become in 
tune with yourself and in oneness with the Father. 

Your soul self will reject the unhealthful desires, the need- 
less gratifications, the disturbing external influences, and will 
suggest thoughts of health, sunshine, peace and happiness. 
It will be supreme in its control of self, and poised firm in its 
own position, unmoved by turmoil from without, impregnable 
against all assaults of "time and chance." 

Take these thoughts to yourselves. Let them become the 
indwelling ideals of the brain. You will sense their power 
and see nature from a different point of view. 

Order will form out from what seemed to be chaos, and 
instead of being a victim of unnatural conditions, you will 



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perceive the perfection of Natural law and adjust yourself 
into harmonious relationship to it. 

You will thus understand your own bodily functions, and 
your own power to govern and direct these. You will under- 
stand the God-life that is within you, and reach down into 
every part of your body and demand the healthful fulfillment 
of its life forces, a reconstruction of its deranged elements, 
and a rebuilding of its impaired tissues. You will order 
your life for its physiological health, and you will command 
your mind for its psychological development. 

God has given you this power, since you are a child of his 
own life. He is within all things that live and all things are 
possible according to the just working of his laws. 

Let us stand for truth and be victorious over every false 
position. If you are conscious of weakness stand firm in the 
universal principles, and demand and demand again that 
your own strength shall rise and respond to the power that is 
permeating every world in space, and which gives life to 
every individual dweller in the universe. Each victory 
makes the final conquest easier, and even though weakness 
sometimes shows itself, re-capture your power, assert your 
position, maintain your truth, and never yield to any inferior 
foe. In this way you will become a power, and not only 
build physical health but add to your wisdom. You have 
all the material necessary to build a successful life, first in 
the God-like mental, because you will have become a magnet 
through the higher experience and have now the control of 
your own organism. This is a great achievement toward 



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the advance of civilization. The beautiful lands of America 
are just receiving the gleams of the progressive rays. 

The awakened minds have broken the shackles that 
enslaved them, and are freeing man from his own ignorance. 
Man's own condemnation of self and of others has proved a 
heavy error. It has weighed him down and encompassed 
his life with depressing conditions. It has been a waste of 
thought, a waste of time, a waste of matter, and a waste of 
life. 

These prophetic leaders have strewn your pathway with 
the seeds of truth, which shall take root in the very founda- 
tions of life, and grow up into blossoms that shall bear fruit 
in more truth and love until one by one the people shall be 
touched by this spirit, and the nations shall rise to heights of 
an inspired civilization. 

This new era is ushered in by many changes. As man 
becomes more refined, and is thrilled by God's revelations, 
he adopts the methods of living that advances him more and 
more in the way of progress and the realization of harmony. 
His life becomes more simple, more natural, more kindly, 
more intelligent. He no longer slays beasts for food nor 
eats flesh of any kind. 

He thrusts from his life all things that would tend toward 
forming or fostering a disposition of warfare and of blood- 
shed. His nature is at peace with his fellow man, and in 
harmony with the world beneath him, and above him. He 
is drawing from the celestial springs of truth, and is living in 
God's love which will silence the grievous turmoil of the 



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world, and will fill his heart with harmonious aspirations and 
overflowing love. He will rise to the higher atmosphere of 
expression, and will no longer be enslaved by any habit or 
vice, nor will he exhibit selfishness in his relationship to others. 

But those who still live in the deteriorating conditions, who 
remain as driftwood on the bosom of the waters, choking the 
current and preventing the onward flow of the pure streams, 
to those I would pray that they may be awakened and put 
forth their energy and be borne onward to the haven of their 
true destiny 

My prayers have been placed between every line in 
unseen, indelible words, that your souls may feel the sweet 
love of Deity that flows through my heart from my soul 
fountain that all human souls may be lifted from the shadows 
of life into God's revelations of Natural truth 

Nature is the life and the truth 

At this very moment of writing Jesus has appeared and 
placed a crown on my head and blessed me. I feel the 
purifying uplift of a throng of souls who are in the presence 
of this Master. The arm of his holy love has been thrown 
about me, and the deific wave of truth has lifted me to the 
radiant heights of God's love. 

Through this work will his blessing shine forth before the 
world, and through my organism will be demonstrated this 
truth of the higher life. I am drifting on transparent clouds 
of the upper air in the realm of peace where the voices and 
the music of angels come to me. This is heaven on earth. 
I have been baptized in the fountain of God's living waters 



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that I may make known to mankind the fuller truth of life 
everlasting. I cannot fail in my endeavor. I will stand 
fearless before the world for this truth is given me by Jesus, 
the Christ Spirit, the light that lighteth our darkness. The 
angels have received my promise, and bear witness to my 
work for humanity. This I promise with the blessing of 
God and the angels, Amen! 



I see life as I never have before. I feel an uplift from 
celestial sources. 

My prayers will be felt when you open this book and 
when you have read the volume my benediction of divine 
love shall be felt in your soul. 

The world shall see and know the truth. This is the 
dawning of the morning of a great advance. 

Fifty years hence through the deific avenues of progression 
man will be unfolded and illuminated by the principles of 
Nature and his character will exhibit much more refinement, 
delicacy and power — for the soul itself will expand and rest 



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not until individual and social conditions are established upon 
the basis of fraternal and universal love. Peace and unity 
will elevate mankind above warfare, and will teach the 
world to be just. 

There will be no more institutions of punishment for the 
criminal, nor for the imprisonment of the mental and moral 
unfortunates. Preventive and curative methods will be 
studied, and nature will be recognized as the unerring teacher. 

The angels of love and truth are spreading God's wisdom 
throughout the world, and error and unrighteousness will be 
displaced by wisdom. The imperfect happenings will be 
arranged toward the better expressions, and mankind will no 
longer be under condemnation and false accusation, for 
ignorance will have passed away. 

In this coming era of justice, selfishness can have no place, 
and former weaknesses will have grown into strength. The 
destructive tendencies will have been swept away by the seas 
of time, and the ethereal wave of peace will have passed over 
the face of the waters and cleansed the surface of the earth, 
and purified mankind. 

In this kingdom of social justice and individual unselfish- 
ness the harmonious character will bloom in divine beauty 
having risen from the lower conditions, even as the lily that 
has its beginning in the darkness springs up from the depths 
of mother earth and steadily directs its course through the 
crystal waters till it reaches the upper air, there purified to 
unfold its beauty in the warmth of God's sunlight. This 
flower is a symbol of progressive development, it is the ascen- 



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sion of life from the lower to higher expressions. The 
cleansing, refining, upward process is very evident. Its 
petals of white are the characterization of purity; its yellow 
center represents the celestial glory that colors the highest 
soul centers of the seventh sphere; its perfume is the aroma 
of the atmosphere of love, while its lifted face manifests a 
tranquility that seems to be unfolded from its interior con- 
sciousness. 



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IX. 



Nature everywhere teaches that the rudimental conditions 
into advanced organizations which merge into new systems 
and these will gradually establish an era when the nations 
shall all rejoice in the accomplishment of a superior civiliza- 
tion. 

Another half century will greatly hasten this wonderful 
era, which has been foreseen and foretold by the prophets of 
every age. Nature will always inspire her children with her 
own progressive truth. Another fifty years will greatly 
modify the prevailing evils which result from unequal condi- 
tions, so that physical strength, individual liberty, and moral 
development will be the foundation of the future generation. 

Mankind will be more receptive to the truth of the higher 
spheres, more sensitive to the magnetic force that is permeat- 
ing all forms, more intuitive regarding the mighty possibilities 



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of life, and more easily inspired to comprehend the universal 
system, and bring its blessings into the affairs of humanity. 

Society must arrange itself for the good of every individ- 
ual, and as material conditions are so influential either for 
the benefit or the injury of the race, it is evident that physical 
circumstances must be greatly changed. 

Science, industry, mechanics, art, and commerce are all 
contributing toward the intelligent achievement of success. 
Inventions and discoveries will literally change the face of 
the globe, and make the earth and air yield more freely its 
natural abundance and blessing. Man is making wonderful 
discoveries in the phenomena of nature and is learning how to 
control the very elements that have brought such destruction 
and is applying Nature's laws to subdue and make useful 
that which through its excess was a menace; violence from 
beneath the crust of the earth will lessen as the planet pro- 
gresses in the refinement of matter, and the corruptions of 
unclean conditions will be removed. In this law of the 
higher unfoldment the true life of man and woman will 
bloom in immortal beauty. They will typify the principles 
of love and of justice. They will no longer oppress the 
unfortunate classes and compel them to toil that the few may 
live in luxury, but will labor to lift all who are beneath in 
unequal environments up into the position that Nature gives 
as equal heritage. 

The accumulation of gold, and the mastery of men will 
not be an inspiring ambition. The human heart will respond 
to higher impulses and throb with a love in tune with uni- 



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versal happiness. The wealth of the world will be recog- 
nized as the natural benefit of those who earn it, and who use 
it to forward the onward movement of the desired for civili- 
zation. This will remove the depressing influence that holds 
men down in ignorance, misery, poverty, disease, and vice, 
and will correct class distinction, and reconstruct society into 
the brotherhood designed by God in his loving wisdom. 

The Science of Nature teaches the truth of Deity's prin- 
ciples, and does not regard man's opinion or man's interpreta- 
tion of the methods of the Infinite. 

The still small voice of Deity is ever speaking to the inner 
consciousness and it awakens mankind to the truth through 
the teachers, through inspired lives, through its own natural 
beauty, and the harmony of existence is unfolded. The 
time may have been long, and the way devious, but the 
journey is accomplished, and you stand at last by the living 
waters, and enter the refreshing pools of immortal love. You 
have all of eternity before you, but since these laws are 
undeviating it is better to begin at once to realize their 
significance and adapt life to their meaning and thus, for 
yourself, and for those you are associated with, make the 
present time as harmonious and advanced as the life of fifty 
years hence. 

Natural Science is the angel of God's love that will teach 
the truth sooner or later. It teaches that you can unfold all 
the riches of the spirit and grow just as strong, just as power- 
ful as you wish. You can become a God-like man, and be 
a leader of men, guiding them to this treasure-house of their 



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own possession. This is the use of life, to develop it accord- 
ing to the limitless principle of progress. Be just to your- 
self, and justice will smile through every movement in 
Nature. Demand justice and thus attract to yourself the 
fulfillment of this law ; reflect this justice in all your acts and 
hasten this realization of liberty, truth and love. 

This is the gleam of the coming era, this is the gleam of 
the higher development, the more perfect condition of life, 
the higher expression of love. It is a love for growth, a love 
for principle, a love to sacrifice all things that retard progres- 
sion, a love to be fearless, a determination to stand by your 
highest convictions, never swerved by the masses but ever 
faithful to the light, follow onward till the heights are 
reached. 

Carry the cross of criticism, die fighting for a cause which 
you know to be true, for you die only to live again with your 
battle won, and your victory gained. 

It is such souls as these that are making the onward march 
of progression possible, and who are showing you the higher 
planes of life, and have already lifted the veil that hangs 
between you and the presence of your dear ones in the other 
sphere. 

In this refining process all people will become spiritualized, 
and will naturally enter into this communicating and feel the 
atmosphere of their loved ones as they tell the sweet story of 
life everlasting. 

The spirit world is near you at all times, and as you attain 
more and more to harmony, your own soul life will radiate 



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back and forth from this sphere, to the higher planes, and 
you will cooperate more fully and more freely in the love 
life that is the sequence of divine principles, and respond 
more gladly to the divine magnet that is ever drawing you 
onward to the central Goodness. 

The great turmoil of life then is quieted, and your 
struggles are over. You have recognized God's wisdom and 
justice and you have accepted his wise provisions. You 
have left the wilderness and the waste places, and are walk- 
ing in God's garden of life, in harmony with all existence 
from the smallest form to the highest unfolding of spiritual 
attainment. You are a living soul, recognizing your earthly 
body as a temple to live in while in this expression of life, 
and through it, conforming to the laws of matter as they unite 
with those of mind and power. 

You are blending and interblending with all of Nature. 
You are breathing in the divine essence, you are radiating 
divine light, and you are attuned to Nature's glorious 
symphony. Your heart is throbbing responsive to your soul's 
highest impulses. 

It is Purity sensing the unwritten language of the Infinite 
-^-acknowledging the music of all spheres and all people, the 
harmony that blends with the Great Positive Mind God, and 
that sings with the voices of the angels. 

Your soul is thrilled by this music. It is the paean of 
thanksgiving, the spontaneous utterance of gladness that you 
have won the victory over inferior conditions. 



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Thus are you saved by Nature's perfect love and wisdom, 
and are noble in character, universal in principle, kind in 
heart, charitable and just in your efforts to save others. 

The blessing of God's love is yours through all eternity. 



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X. 



To all those who are weak in body or distressed by suffer- 
ing of any kind, I offer this form of treatment to be used 
every day by the individual as a personal statement, and as a 
means of opening his or her life to the truths of Nature, and 
thereby gain strength not only through their own divine re- 
sources, but receive that healing love ahd power that is ever 
flowing from the Infinite Source of Life. 



Enter your own room, close yourself to all outside in- 
fluences, sit quietly for ten minutes, read forcefully this 
affirmation. 



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I am seated in a room alone, yet not alone. I am in the 
Divine Source of my own life and in the presence of God 
and the angels. I recognize their presence in the sacredness 
of this moment. I feel the divine inflow of God's love. I 
thank God for this love and for his presence. The gateway 
of my soul has opened. I am thrilled with limitless power 
from the Great Positive Mind, God. I realize my oneness 
with the rays of his eternal power. It lifts me from all 
weakness and ignorance, and I am a part of Thee, O God. 

I am powerful, I am filled with divine wisdom. I see 
the limitless extent of my power. I am growing stronger and 
fearless. I demand my right as a child of God. I have 
won the victory. Health is mine. I grasp it, I cling with 
wisdom and power that cannot fail me. I have been healed 
by the wisdom of God. 



Between the lines is the rejoicing of the angels in answer 
to your call. 



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LIFE. 

I stand in the great forever 

All things to me are divine, 
I launch my bark on the ocean 

Of destiny and time. 

The stars shine bright and one good night 

For all I am or may be, 
In boundless space I will find my place 

No mourning after me. 

In the dawn of the great horizon 

Fair portals wide I see ; 
The hand of the great forever 

Is the hand of destiny. 

I hear the angels calling 

I know their beckoning hands. 

In the land of the great forever 
I see that heavenly band. 



THE SCHOOL of NATURAL 
SCIENCE 



RICHMOND L. BISHOP 

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Massachusetts 

This science of healing takes for its source the fountain 
of power which flows from Deific centers through every form 
of life, permeating and penetrating every organism. The 
Natural Healer embodies this vitalizing element, and through 
a superior knowledge of the celestial principle of life is in a 
more direct relationship to it, and by the same quality of 
transmission can treat patients in any part of the world, as 
material substance forms no obstacle to this etherial current. 
Through this natural immutable law of health giving principle 
the patient is lifted to a more perfect physical and spiritual 
condition. 

All progress in consciousness and harmonization is deter- 
mined by individual knowledge and use of natural law. 

The experiences during twenty years as a student of these 
principles and ten years as a mental practitioner make it 
possible to give to the world this science of healing. 

Classes for instruction formed after September first 

References, by permission, given upon application. 

Patients treated at a distance. 

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